Python won't work

[vantgE]

Actually not the real python one of the lee's ones, but i can't get it too drain or syphon my tank, anyone have a suggestion?
reall really frustrated right now

 

[luxum]

Mmm well i could suggest if i had a little more to go on. This may sound obvious, but are you using the pump? You have to pull a valve down on the bottom of the pump to let the water go through to make the vacuum. How long is the tubing on your python. a longer tube is harder to start a vacuum. Is your tank significantly higher than your faucet? How's your water pressure? Are the joins all tight where the tubing meets plastic?

 

[vantgE]

I think that everything is tight it is a 50 foot, the tank is not sgnificantly higher than the faucet about the same hight but maybe a little lower even. The uh, pump i;m not sure what you mean as mine isn't the python brand, but where the water should run out into the sink, the part moves up for siphoning and down for filling, and we tried it a couple times both ways just in case, so is that what you mean?
The tap doesn't have as much water pressure as some other ones in the house but does not seem to be at a reduced level

 

[De Plano]

Well, first of all I should make the disclaimer that I don't use my Python to syphon the water out. I drain it into a bucket (with a regular aquarium syphon) and just use the Python to fill the tank. I find it easier that way for one person to use it.


But when I have used the syphon on my Python I have noticed it helps to get all the air out of it. I just put the syphon in start filling it, turn up the end so that it empties the air out and then open the syphon up to drain it.

It helps to fill the tank a bit first, (that fills the hose with water and the wider part at the end).

Also it is going to syphon better with the tank above the level of the sink, if it is below it and there is not enough water pressure it may not get enough force to make up for gravity.

Try getting all the air out of the syphon, and if that does not work try a sink that has more pressure or is below the level of the tank.

Good luck

 

[vantgE]

I'm not sure i can do that it keeps sending water through the hose no matter what i do and isn't the whole idea of it to be powered so that you can syphon into a slighlty jigher sink

 

[luxum]

If it is sending water through the hose even when the pump (that's the piece that attaches to the faucet, yes) is in the down (drain) position, then you have a defective pump. You can return the whole unit or just pick up a new pump, they are sold in many places as part of a waterbed fill kit.

 

[vantgE]

Thanks that's what i thought wanted to make sure, thanks again to everyone

 

[canarsie11]

How much did you pay for that thing?